Better collaboration means more effective learning

Blackboard Collaborate

With the new Blackboard Collaborate™, a fully redesigned web conferencing application built for learning, you have a reliable, simple, and convenient tool that enables everyone with anytime, anywhere collaboration. Designed with the learner in mind, our new technology delivers a level of engagement that makes learners forget they’re not in a physical space.

Better collaboration for more effective learning

Today’s learners want new ways to engage and collaborate. Virtual classrooms and online professional development deliver new opportunities to meet your learners where they are. Inspire and engage your learners with the easy to use online collaborative solutions they crave.

Synchronous learning is a breeze!

Success Stories

The University of Derby uses Virtual Open Days to help grow their fully online distance learning business, giving students chance to experience Blackboard Collaborate. This has become the key way for the University to convert enquirers through to enrolments, whilst giving prospective students an in depth overview of a specific course or subject area.

Synchronous online learning for higher education

Blackboard Collaborate provides unmatched synchronous learning with a full upgrade for 2015. On its own or within our Learning Solutions, our education-specific web conferencing capabilities enable institutions to foster collaboration and drive student retention and success.

Key Features

Easily reach your students, wherever they are

Blackboard Collaborate has been redesigned to make anytime web conferencing with your students simpler, easier, and more reliable.

Simple yet full-featured collaboration

Web conferencing should be easy. Our capabilities are intuitive so you can focus on interaction, rather than technology.

Collaboration, for all teaching models

You’ll have all of the synchronous online collaborative learning tools you need to meet your instructional goals.

On the go and learning together

Give your students more options to stay engaged – with personalized learning tools for their mobile-enabled lives.

Your all-in-one, 24/7 classroom & group study tool

Whether you’re taking a fully online course or you just want to have a virtual study group after class, we make it easy and fun to create a collaborative learning environment with your classmates and professors from anywhere.

Learn together without getting together.

Good-looking, fun to be with, reliable

Our sleek, intuitive interface provides you with audio, video, chat, whiteboard, and more, using world-class technology that is modern and reliable.

A classroom that is always on – and on you

No matter where you roam, work with classmates and professors from the comfort and convenience of your phone or tablet.

Support every way of teaching and learning

Blackboard Collaborate keeps students engaged anywhere and anytime, increasing course completion. It is an easy-to-use, reliable, and scalable platform for web conferencing that enables you to reach all students, all the time.

Engaging, personalised learning options

Support large online programs, blended learning, virtual office hours, professional development, and faculty meetings – all with one toolset.

To ensure adoption, it’s easy to use

With quick startup and intuitive workflows, your educators and students are free to focus on interaction and learning.

Mobile collaboration from anywhere

Give today's mobile-enabled students the connection they crave and the personalization they demand.

Easy-to-use, reliable, scalable collaboration

Your school needs a world-class teaching and learning tool that engages students and connects them to your institution. Blackboard Collaborate was specifically built for education and does just that. And it integrates seamlessly with your LMS.

For reliable and scalable collaboration

Success Stories

The University of Derby uses Virtual Open Days to help grow their fully online distance learning business, giving students chance to experience Blackboard Collaborate. This has become the key way for the University to convert enquirers through to enrolments, whilst giving prospective students an in depth overview of a specific course or subject area.